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Four of Feathers – Domination
(Structure Cards)

Four of Feathers – Domination
(Structure Cards)

We are standing before the unknown, the impermanent, the uncontrollable. There is only the active and sensing body: Shifting between pleasure and pain, between being in control and surrendering to the forces of destiny. In the indistinct space where suffering is tempting and pleasure is painfully seductive. Playing with the basic principle of the living organism: Attraction to what gives pleasure and repulsion from what hurts and inflicts pain.

Stepping into social existence depends on the recognition of the other, which is the outcome of limiting the self – imposing boundaries and prohibitions on our unbridled impulses and desires. A game of setting boundaries and crossing boundaries.

Against the ideal of human freedom, we encounter enslavement and helplessness under the forces of life. Required to regulate the master-slave relationship, internalize the cultural, the instrumental, the artificial as the way of being human, as a way of positioning oneself in relation to existence. To find the responsibility and care enclosed in domination, the power and liberation in surrendering to the law. To harness the pain and the pleasure in order to transcend the physical, go beyond the cultural causality, and find a spiritual outlet.

What is the secret? Who is the master? What is surrender?

We are standing before the unknown, the impermanent, the uncontrollable. There is only the active and sensing body: Shifting between pleasure and pain, between being in control and surrendering to the forces of destiny. In the indistinct space where suffering is tempting and pleasure is painfully seductive. Playing with the basic principle of the living organism: Attraction to what gives pleasure and repulsion from what hurts and inflicts pain.

Stepping into social existence depends on the recognition of the other, which is the outcome of limiting the self – imposing boundaries and prohibitions on our unbridled impulses and desires. A game of setting boundaries and crossing boundaries.

Against the ideal of human freedom, we encounter enslavement and helplessness under the forces of life. Required to regulate the master-slave relationship, internalize the cultural, the instrumental, the artificial as the way of being human, as a way of positioning oneself in relation to existence. To find the responsibility and care enclosed in domination, the power and liberation in surrendering to the law. To harness the pain and the pleasure in order to transcend the physical, go beyond the cultural causality, and find a spiritual outlet.

What is the secret? Who is the master? What is surrender?

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